>> So career advice; if you're looking possibly to get into this field,
I would suggest joining a local volunteer fire company.
The majority of them have an EMS side tied to the fire side and a lot of these firehouses
or fire companies have an observer program and you can sign up.
They'll do a background check, you know, probably do some paperwork, interview you
and then once everything gets done, you become an observer and you can actually ride
on the ambulance as just an observer, not doing any patient care.
But you can really see if it's something you want to do.
You watch the interaction between the paramedics, the EMTs,
what type of calls they go on, see if it's something you can handle.
Like I said, because sometimes you're going to see people at their worst
but when you see what these people do to help people and save lives, it might be something
that you might be interested in and then you can go from there, and like I said,
you can do your certifications, you know, do your EMT and then if you decide you want
to even go further than that, you can get your EMT intermediate or your EMT paramedic.